squashing

English

Verb

squashing

1. present participle and gerund of squash

Adjective

squashing (comparative more squashing, superlative most squashing)

1. Belittling.
   • 1978, Kerry Allyne, Tuesday's Jillaroo:

     […] what she hoped was a suitably imperious and squashing tone.

Derived terms

• squashingly

Noun

squashing (plural squashings)

1. The act by which something is squashed; a pressing.

Anagrams

• quashings